Word: investors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rockefeller has not only appealed to the snob, he has appealed to the investor. His "limited editions" imply that there might be some resale market for the cunning purchaser, that a buyer today might be able to go out and resell his copy for a profit in the future. Don't count on it. Once the promotional steam clears, no one will be interested in a fake Rodin...
...been said that Harvard is only a tiny investor. But in the sphere of public opinion. Harvard is a whale, capable of generating tremendous currents for change. Harvard is a leader in curricular reform, Harvard is a leader in investment policies. A whale trying to act like an ostrich looks silly at best, and at worst, evasive. And that is the lesson we are teaching our students...
Some say the University must preserve its neutrality, so as not to endanger its academic freedom, so as not to provoke political or economic retaliation. Now not only is it impossible for the University as an investor to be neutral, but also I do not think that academic freedom is best preserved if we shrink from exercising it. I do not think academic freedom is best preserved if we deny the social consequences of our investment policies. I would have thought that academic freedom meant finding and speaking and acting the truth regardless of the consequences. I would have thought...
...understand that security rands are not currently legal tender in South Africa, and that the government bonds in question are likely to be of the 15 to 30 year category. If all this is accurate, it would seem that without drawing such attention to it as to depress foreign investor interest, the South African government has effectively rendered the withdrawal debate sterile. Even if a foreign company were to succeed in disposing of its assets in South Africa for a fair, rather than a forced sale price, translating them into loans to the South African government would hardly...
Shaw's personae are the languishing leisure class engaged in social masquerade: "How are we to have any self-respect," complains the fraudulent investor, "if don't keep it up that we're better than we really are?" And to top it off, there is mad Captain Shotover endlessly traversing the stage in search of the seventh degree of concentration, leaving behind him a wake of nonsensical criticism, and them harrumphing back across the stage with still more. Yes, Heartbreak House is a madhouse--but it is England as well...